Sweatband for hats



.l. P. WEIS- SWEATBAND FOR HATS} APPLICATION FILED 050.15, 1917. RENEWED'JAN. 29, I920.

1,347,528, Patented July 27, 1920-.

; UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. WEIS, OF NYACK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO METROPOLITAN SEWING MACHINE CORPORATION, OF N YACK, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF DELA- WARE.

SWEATBAND FOR HATS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1920.

Application filed December 15, 1917, Serial No. 207,355. Renewed January 29, 1920. Serial No. 354,885.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JoHN P. VEIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nyack, in the county of Rockland and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sweatbands for Fats, of which the following is a specifica- 1on. I

This invention relates to sweat bands for hats, the object of the invention being to provide an improved sweat band which will have one or more embossments or ribs formed therein by means of a sewing machine, so that when the band is applied to a hat, the band will encircle the head of the wearer and fit the head properly.

This improvement is especially useful with stifi, straw or other hats wherein it is desirable to provide a sweat band which will conform to the shape of the head and make a uniform fit with equal pressure on the head throughout the circumference of the band and not merely fit the high spots of the head, and in thepresent improvement this is obtained by providing the sweat band, when formed either of leather or material imitating leather, with one or more embossed portions or ribs by means of a sewing machine, and which embossed portions will project sufficiently to cause the circumference of the hat at this ribbed por tion to be smaller than other portions of the band whereby the hat will fit the head of the- Wearer comfortably and the band will also sufficiently yield to conform to the shape of the wearers head, and which embossed portion moreover will be retained in shape, while permitting the proper flexibility thereof, by means of suitable stitches.

I am aware that it is not new to provide hat bands with embossed portions provided with a filling of elastic or felt in an attempt to make the same fit the wearers head, but such embossed portions have always heretofore been obtained by passing the sweat bands through heated rollers and then inserting a small rubber band therein to maintain the shape of the embossed portion and to permit the sweat band to fit the wearers head, for obviously without some such inser tion the embossed portion would soon quickly flatten and get out of shape, so that it would not be effective to accomplish its purpose. The insertion of an elastic or piece of felt not only provides a bulky surface which is more or less unyielding but prevents the embossed portion from having that flexibility and yielding quality which it is desired it should have to uniformly fit the head of the wearer. Therefore the object of the present improvement is to provide a sweat band with an embossed portion without passing it through heated rollers, and With means which will maintain it in shape without inserting an elastic or piece of felt therein.

In the present improvement this embossed portion and the maintaining of it in shape are obtained simultaneously on a sewing machine.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 illustrates a sweat band made in accordance with the present improvement, both sides thereof being shown; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of this band; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the band in readiness to be attached to a hat; Fig. 4 illustrates a band having a pair of parallel embossed portions in readiness to be at tached to a hat; and Fig. 5 illustrates so much of a sewing machine as is necessary to show the manner in which the present improved sweat band is made.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawing.

The sweat band 1 is provided with an embossed or raised rib 2 of substantially semi-circular form, which is maintained in shape by means of stitching, the two lines 3 of which are connected by suitable cross stitches 4:. The edge of the band is usually provided with a suitable binding and reed stitched to the edge of the sweat band, and this serves as a suitable attaching member for securing the band to the hat. A. suitable sewing machine having needles 6, a presser foot 7, a throat plate 8, a suitable feed 9 for feeding the band, and a looper mechanism 10 is provided. The feed dogs extend upwardly through the throat plate and the throat plate is provided with one or more raised portions 14, one being shown herein, according to the number of embossed portions the band is to have, and the presser foot is provided with a corresponding number of concaved portions 14: conforming to the raised portions of the throat plate, so that as the sweat band is fed through the macondition thereby forming the embossed or raised rib portion 2 simultaneously. with which the needles and the looper will form the stitches 3 and 4, so as to hold the embossed portion in shape with the necessary flexibility to flatten out when placed under pressure and return to its normal condition when such pressure is removed. It will be observed that the stitching mechanism forms two lines of stitches 3, one at each side of the embossed portion connected by cross stitches at. The lines of stitches 3 are represented by the loops ll of the needle thread, while the cross thread is represented by the strand of looper thread 12 in Fig. 5.

From the foregoing it will thus be seen that without the necessity of using heated rollers I obtain an embossed sweat band and without the necessity of using a filling of elastic or felt, I maintain the shape of this embossed portion by suitable cross stitches, and that the embossed portion and the stitching of the band are simultaneously effected by utilizing a sewing machine having its throat plate and presser foot so .formed as to accomplish the desired result, whereby a considerable saving in material, time and labor is not only obtained but a more desirable and more uniform sweat band provided.

I claim as my invention:

1. A sweat band having one or more embossed portions extending lengthwise thereof, and provided with stitches across the same for maintaining the shape thereof.

provided ateach side thereof with straightaway stitches connected at the rear side of such raised portlon by a series of ZlgZZtg cross stitches to ald in holding the raised portion in shape.

5. As an article of manufacture, a sweat band having an embossed or raised portion extending lengthwise thereof the opposed edges of such embossed portion at the rear of the band being, connected by cross] stitches.

6. As an articleof manufacture, asweat band having an embossed or ra1sed portion, the opposed edges of such embossed portion atthe rear of the band being connected by cross stitches.

Signed at Nyack,

JOHN ,P. wars.

New York, this 10th day of December, 1917. e 

